Caribou

Swatches of the Stone Roses' back-masked guitars get sewn up with drum breaks that have been pushed into the red and left to sizzle, while Manitoba's washed-out vocals put a psychedelic stamp on the material. The last album Dan Snaith recorded before changing his alias from Manitoba to Caribou, it's at once dreamy and invigorating, with melodic and percussive muscle that easily pushes aside its "folktronica" tag. Meaty, mesmerizing stuff.